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Micron Technology, Inc., is one of the world's leading
providers of advanced semiconductor solutions. Through its worldwide operations,
Micron manufactures and markets DRAM, NAND flash memory, CMOS image sensors,
other semiconductor components, and memory modules for use in leading-edge
computing, consumer, networking, and mobile products. Micron's common stock is
traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the MU symbol. To learn more
about Micron Technology, Inc., visit www.micron.com.
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In November 2007 - Micron
announced its entry plans for the SSDs market by saying it would launch a
family of SATA flash SSDs in Q1 2008.
Today, in February 2009
- Micron markets 2.5"
SSDs under the Crucial SSD brand
(which are also available in an external enclosure or with a 3.5" mounting
kit.) Their Lexar
brand SSDs include ExpressCards for notebooks.
In April 2008 -
Micron and
Nanya Technology
announced they were each investing $550 million in cash in a new joint venture.
In November 2008 - Micron demonstrated prototypes of fast
PCIe flash SSDs with
800MB/s throughput, and hinted that 1GB/s SSDs could be available soon.
The performance itself (for a prototype) is unremarkable - because 3 other oems
already ship flash SSDs with similar (or faster) performance as commercial
products.
Z's Laws - Predicting
Future Flash SSD Performance
In February 2009 - Micron
announced restructuring plans will reduce employment at their Idaho sites by
approximately 500 employees in the near term and as many as 2,000 positions by
the end of the company’s fiscal year.
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- SSD Myths and Legends - "write endurance" |
| Does
the fatal gene of "write endurance" built into
flash
solid state
disks prevent their deployment in intensive server acceleration
applications - such as RAID
systems? |
It
was certainly true as little as a few years ago.
What's the risk with
today's devices?
This article looks at the current generation of
products and calculates how much (or how little) you should be worried. |
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| RAM based SSDs have been
used alongside RAID for years - but
flash SSDs are
physically smaller and have bigger capacity (upto 412G in 2.5", 512G in
3.5") and are lower cost than RAM-SSDs and could actually be configured
in standard RAID boxes. F-SSDs aren't as fast as RAM based products but a single
flash SSD can deliver 20,000 IOPs - which when scaled up in an array - starts to
look interesting.
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article,
storage reliability
solid state disks | |
